Accomplishing Change In Teaching And Learning Regimes

Author : Paul Trowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198851714

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Accomplishing Change in Teaching and Learning Regimes by Paul Trowler Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on the professional world of higher education. Using social practice theory, it presents a practice sensibility rooted in concepts which illuminate teaching and learning contexts. The book takes the reader through the social processes occurring within higher education institutions which shape contexts and influence the direction of change. For leaders and managers, educational developers, change agents, and academics, this sensibility will help to identify the successful paths to changes for enhancement and the patterns of policy implementation likely to occur as teaching and learning is enhanced. For researchers of higher education, the practice sensibility offers new possibilities for meaningful research into teaching and learning issues. Teaching and learning regimes are a key focus of the book. As a family of practices performed by a workgroup in higher education over extended periods, they comprise a number of 'moments'; characteristics derived from structural foundations which shape the workgroup's practices and frameworks of meaning. These moments condition how teaching and learning is fundamentally understood, what its aims are thought to be, what is considered 'normal' practice, how individuals see themselves and others, and how power operates within the workgroup. The material context is significant in this, as are the backstories, personal histories, and institutional sagas. This book develops a completely new approach to Trowler's concept of teaching and learning regimes. Using both his research and that of others in the field, it presents a more nuanced, fully-developed, and sophisticated version of the concept which has great traction for empirical research, the management of change, and the enhancement of the student experience and learning outcomes.

Author : Steen Hyldgaard Christensen,Anders Buch,Eddie Conlon,Christelle Didier,Carl Mitcham,Mike Murphy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031116018

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Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen,Anders Buch,Eddie Conlon,Christelle Didier,Carl Mitcham,Mike Murphy Pdf

This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations have come of age. These conversations are important because ultimately their outcome have real world consequences in engineering education and practice, and for the social and material world we inhabit. Taken together the 21 chapters provide scholarly-argued responses to the following questions. Why are these conversations important for engineering, for social sciences, and for the humanities? Are there key places in practice, in the curriculum, and in institutions where these conversations can develop best? What are the barriers to successful conversations? What proposals can be made for deepening these conversations for the future? How would we know that the conversations have come of age, and who gets to decide? The book appeals to scholarly audiences that come together through their work in engineering education and practice. The chapters of the book probes and access the meetings and conversations, and they explore new avenues for strengthening dialogues that transcend narrow disciplinary confines and divisions. “The volume offers a rich collection of descriptive resources and theoretical tools that will be useful for researchers of engineering practices, and for those aiming to reshape the engineering lifeworld through new policies. The book depicts the current state of the art of the most visible SSH contributions to shaping engineering practices, as well as a map of research gaps and policy problems that still need to be explored.” - Dr. Ir. Lavinia Marin, TU Delft, Electrical Engineering and Philosophy

Author : Paul Ashwin,David Boud,Susanna Calkins,Kelly Coate,Fiona Hallett,Greg Light,Kathy Luckett,Iain MacLaren,Katarina Mårtensson,Jan McArthur,Velda McCune,Monica McLean,Michelle Tooher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350084681

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Reflective Teaching in Higher Education by Paul Ashwin,David Boud,Susanna Calkins,Kelly Coate,Fiona Hallett,Greg Light,Kathy Luckett,Iain MacLaren,Katarina Mårtensson,Jan McArthur,Velda McCune,Monica McLean,Michelle Tooher Pdf

Reflective Teaching in Higher Education is the definitive textbook for those wanting to excel at teaching in the sector. Informed by the latest research in this area, the book offers extensive support for those at the start of an academic career and career-long professionalism for those teaching in higher education. Written by an international collaborative author team of experts led by Paul Ashwin, Reflective Teaching in Higher Education offers two levels of support: - practical guidance for day-to-day teaching, covering key issues such as strategies for improving learning, teaching and assessment, curriculum design, relationships, communication, and inclusion - evidence-informed 'principle's to aid understanding of how theories can effectively inform teaching practices, offering ways to develop a deeper understanding of teaching and learning in higher education In addition to new case studies from a wider variety of countries than ever before, this new edition includes discussion of: - What is meant by 'agency' - Gender, ethnicity, disability and university teaching - Digital learning spaces and social media - Teaching career development for academics - Decolonising the curriculum - Assessment and feedback practices - Teaching excellence and 'learning gain' - 2015 UN General Assembly 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reflectiveteaching.co.uk provides a treasure trove of additional support. It includes supplementary sector specific material to support for considering questions around society's educational aims, and much more besides.

Author : Thomas de Lange,Line Wittek
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031374586

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Faculty Peer Group Mentoring in Higher Education by Thomas de Lange,Line Wittek Pdf

This book addresses how peer group mentoring in higher education can contribute to the development of supportive and collaborative working environments for faculty staff. It draws on an extensive empirical study examining how group based peer-mentoring methods are implemented and experimented within four different academic communities at one university, and documents how these environments and their participants experience peer group mentoring as a collaborative measure in the development of teaching and supervision practices. The book presents a literature review of research on peer group mentoring in higher education and provides the conceptual grounding for the book, placing peer group mentoring within the field of faculty development. The work presents analyses of the enactment of peer group mentoring in different environments and of faculty peers’ engagement and collaboration with colleagues within the same teacher community, across teaching and supervision communities and across institutional boundaries. It also discusses the significance of trust in these peer group mentoring settings, summarises the implications of the reported findings and addresses the role this peer based approach might play in developing supportive collegiality in higher education as a working environment.

Author : Paul Ashwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350157255

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Transforming University Education by Paul Ashwin Pdf

What is a university degree for? What can it offer to students? Is it only about getting a job? How can we measure the quality of an undergraduate degree? Paul Ashwin shows how, around the world, economic arguments have come to dominate our thinking about the purpose and nature of university education. He argues that we have lost a sense of the educational purposes of an undergraduate degree and the ways in which going to university can transform students' lives. Ashwin challenges a series of myths related to the purposes, educational processes, and quality of an undergraduate education. He argues that these myths have fuelled the current misunderstanding of the educational aspects of higher education and explores what is needed to reinvigorate our understanding of a university education. Throughout, Ashwin draws on his deep engagement with international research to offer an accessible and thought-provoking analysis of the nature of university education.

Author : International Commission on the Futures of Education
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004780

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Reimagining our futures together by International Commission on the Futures of Education Pdf

The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264086487

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Educational Research and Innovation The Nature of Learning Using Research to Inspire Practice by OECD Pdf

This book brings together the lessons of research on both the nature of learning and different educational applications, and it summarises these as seven key concluding principles.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473382800

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Democracy and Education by John Dewey Pdf

This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive treatise on democracy and education, being an introduction to the 'philosophy of education'. Written in clear, concise language and full of interesting expositions and thought-provoking assertions, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in the role of education in society, and it would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Education as a Necessity of Life'; 'Education as a Social Function'; 'Education as Direction'; 'Education as Growth'; 'Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline'; 'Education as Conservative and Progressive'; 'The Democratic Conception in Education'; 'Aims in Education', etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Author : Maryellen Weimer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470366417

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Learner-Centered Teaching by Maryellen Weimer Pdf

In this much needed resource, Maryellen Weimer-one of the nation's most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching-offers a comprehensive work on the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom. As the author explains, learner-centered teaching focuses attention on what the student is learning, how the student is learning, the conditions under which the student is learning, whether the student is retaining and applying the learning, and how current learning positions the student for future learning. To help educators accomplish the goals of learner-centered teaching, this important book presents the meaning, practice, and ramifications of the learner-centered approach, and how this approach transforms the college classroom environment. Learner-Centered Teaching shows how to tie teaching and curriculum to the process and objectives of learning rather than to the content delivery alone.

Author : Herbert Grossman
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015047453488

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Achieving Educational Equality by Herbert Grossman Pdf

Author : Tom Loveless
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1682535908

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Between the State and the Schoolhouse by Tom Loveless Pdf

Between the State and the Schoolhouse examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative's promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in the long history of state and federal efforts to shape education, the book describes a series of critical lessons that highlight the political and structural challenges of large-scale, top-down reforms. Education policy expert Tom Loveless argues that there are too many layers between the state and the classroom for a national standards approach to be effective. Specifically, he emphasizes the significant gap between states' roles in designing education policy and teachers' roles as implementers of policy. In addition, he asserts that top-down policies are unpredictable, subject to political and ideological pressures, and vulnerable to the pendulum effect as new reforms emerge in response to previous ones. One of the most ambitious education reforms of the past century, the Common Core aimed to raise student success, prepare larger numbers of students for both college and careers, and close achievement gaps. Yet, as Loveless documents, a decade later there remains a lack of significant positive impact on student learning. Between the State and the Schoolhouse marks an important contribution to the debate over the standards movement and the role of federal and state governments in education reform.

Author : Dilly Fung
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781911576341

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A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education by Dilly Fung Pdf

Is it possible to bring university research and student education into a more connected, more symbiotic relationship? If so, can we develop programmes of study that enable faculty, students and ‘real world’ communities to connect in new ways? In this accessible book, Dilly Fung argues that it is not only possible but also potentially transformational to develop new forms of research-based education. Presenting the Connected Curriculum framework already adopted by UCL, she opens windows onto new initiatives related to, for example, research-based education, internationalisation, the global classroom, interdisciplinarity and public engagement. A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education is, however, not just about developing engaging programmes of study. Drawing on the field of philosophical hermeneutics, Fung argues how the Connected Curriculum framework can help to create spaces for critical dialogue about educational values, both within and across existing research groups, teaching departments and learning communities. Drawing on vignettes of practice from around the world, she argues that developing the synergies between research and education can empower faculty members and students from all backgrounds to contribute to the global common good.

Author : Chelsea Lynn Haring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Charter schools
ISBN : MSU:31293030625002

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An Examination of Institutional Restructuring and Regime Change in Local Education Politics by Chelsea Lynn Haring Pdf

Author : Patrick J. McGuinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015064712105

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No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005 by Patrick J. McGuinn Pdf

Education is intimately connected to many of the most important and contentious questions confronting American society, from race to jobs to taxes, and the competitive pressures of the global economy have only enhanced its significance. Elementary and secondary schooling has long been the province of state and local governments; but when George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, it signaled an unprecedented expansion of the federal role in public education. This book provides the first balanced, in-depth analysis of how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law. Patrick McGuinn, a political scientist with hands-on experience in secondary education, explains how this happened despite the country's long history of decentralized school governance and the longstanding opposition of both liberals and conservatives to an active, reform-oriented federal role in schools. His book provides the essential political context for understanding NCLB, the controversies surrounding its implementation, and forthcoming debates over its reauthorization. how the struggle to define the federal role in school reform took center stage in debates over the appropriate role of the government in promoting opportunity and social welfare. He places the evolution of the federal role in schools within the context of broader institutional, ideological, and political changes that have swept the nation since the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, chronicles the concerns raised by the 1983 report A Nation at Risk, and shows how education became a major campaign issue for both parties in the 1990s. McGuinn argues that the emergence of swing issues such as education can facilitate major policy change even as they influence the direction of wider political debates and partisan conflict. McGuinn traces the Republican shift from seeking to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education to embracing federal leadership in school reform, then details the negotiations over NCLB, the forces that shaped its final provisions, and the ways in which the law constitutes a new federal education policy regime - against which states have now begun to rebel. and that only by understanding the unique dynamics of national education politics will reformers be able to craft a more effective national role in school reform.

Author : George A. Hood
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Chinese
ISBN : IND:39000001305189

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Mission Accomplished? by George A. Hood Pdf

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Birmingham, 1985)